Rainy day money & water-cannon summers

There is a crackerjack piece at Testosterone Pit examining the immediate effects in emerging markets of Ben & Jan Go Taper Lighting. Sloggers on the whole saw this coming: and just as with interest rates, the question now is what will the interest rats do when the inevitable arrives, as inevitables always do….which is more than you can say for deliverables.

One thing the fat controllers are doing is getting in the summer supplies of water-cannon and tear gas as quickly as they possibly can. Here’s one about an eavesdropping bug. And here’s one you overheard earlier at The Slog about Boris Johnson giving Home Secretary Theresa May some pointers as to why ‘”it would be fair to assume that the ongoing and potential future austerity measures are likely to lead to continued protest”.

Most of you will by now be up to speed with the bizarre (even by their drug-laundering standards) behaviour of HSBC in having the audacity to ask customers withdrawing £5000+ why they want their own money to be used for, um, the purpose of spending it. Other customers also experienced difficulties extracting their own dosh from the clutches of HSBC ATMs. “We have an obligation to protect our customers, and to minimise the opportunity for financial crime,” spouted the bank. We await further bulletins as to whose crimes they had in mind.

Earlier at The Slog: 2020 Vision Balls-up as Teddy Testicles goes Overpromising